Mcelroy Walter (10 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. In late 1862, at the height of the Civil War, the poet and former newspaperman Walt Whitman traveled to a Virginia base camp in search of his wounded brother. The unattended misery he found--rows of unburied corpses, piles of amputated limbs, wounded men lying on the frozen ground--moved him to a profound conviction of necessity that he had to help relieve it. Whitman spent the next four years, at great personal and professional sacrifice, working as a voluntary nurse at military hospitals in the frontline capital of Washington, tending the sick and wounded well past the war's end. The Sacrificial Year is Walt Whitman's story of his involvement in the Civil War, and of his thoughts and feelings about this great crisis. Whitman himself never kept a diary of his experiences--a fact he later regretted-- but he did write hundreds of letters, newspaper articles, and memoranda. While many of these works have been published individually, editor John Harmon McElroy is the first to select and arrange Whitman's prose writings on the war in chronological sequence--including previously unpublished extracts from his recently discovered Civil War notebook--thereby reconstructing a continuous narrative of his month-to-month experience in his own words. Poignant and powerful, encompassing all the horror and scope of that immense conflict, Walt Whitman's war chronicles are among the essential documents of those crucial years. This edition contains nearly 300 entries, and is further enhanced with over 50 compelling period photographs of the places, people, and events that Whitman captured so vividly in his prose.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. In late 1862, at the height of the Civil War, the poet and former newspaperman Walt Whitman traveled to a Virginia base camp in search of his wounded brother. The unattended misery he found--rows of unburied corpses, piles of amputated limbs, wounded men lying on the frozen ground--moved him to a profound conviction of necessity that he had to help relieve it. Whitman spent the next four years, at great personal and professional sacrifice, working as a voluntary nurse at military hospitals in the frontline capital of Washington, tending the sick and wounded well past the war's end. The Sacrificial Year is Walt Whitman's story of his involvement in the Civil War, and of his thoughts and feelings about this great crisis. Whitman himself never kept a diary of his experiences--a fact he later regretted-- but he did write hundreds of letters, newspaper articles, and memoranda. While many of these works have been published individually, editor John Harmon McElroy is the first to select and arrange Whitman's prose writings on the war in chronological sequence--including previously unpublished extracts from his recently discovered Civil War notebook--thereby reconstructing a continuous narrative of his month-to-month experience in his own words. Poignant and powerful, encompassing all the horror and scope of that immense conflict, Walt Whitman's war chronicles are among the essential documents of those crucial years. This edition contains nearly 300 entries, and is further enhanced with over 50 compelling period photographs of the places, people, and events that Whitman captured so vividly in his prose.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. 65pp. Reprinted from the original 1947 Banyan Press edition. Black cloth binding with silver decoration. 11 poems with the original French and the English translation on facing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with general wear, no major faults, clean, tightly bound and unmarked. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Numbered. Numbered. Sound binding and hinges. Endpapers foxed. Clean, off-white pages. Frontispiece drawing by Corbiere. Paper over boards is clean. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown. This edition is limited to 1060 copies, of which 1000, numbered 1 to 1000, were printed on Bethany paper and 60, numbered I to LX, were printed on imported Dutch charcoal paper. This copy is number 45. Poems, translated into English, by French symbolist author Tristan Corbiere (1845-1875). Drawing; 8.5" tall; 65 pages. Illustrated by Author (illustrator).…

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is holding pages tightly. Pages clean but tanned. Wraps are a bit fragile at staples with edge wear, shelf wear, darkening around edges. Contents: Deming, Three poems. Yourcenar, Three Greek myths in Palladian perspective, part II. Hemley, At the river's edge. McElroy, Nightingale of the mud. Corbière, Four poems (in French with English translation by Walter McElroy). Shurtleff, The boy with the dreamy eyes. Hays, The importance of B. Traven. Index to Volume 4. 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 56 pages. …

Condition: Gut. Gebundene Ausgabe ZUSTAND: ehemaliges Bibliotheksbuch mit Stempeln (durchgestrichen) u. Restspuren vom Entfernen eines Aufklebers auf rückwärtiger Einbandinnenseite, etwas Gebrauchsspuren Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 300 21,5 x 14,5 cm, gebundene Ausgabe.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Uncommon G/VG as missing fep, 2nd revised edn, unclipped price, 200pps w/index, ill, woodcuts by Mallette Dean.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good+. Second Edition, Revised. Paper age-darkening, a few minor manufacturing wrinkles to front cloth board, slight bumps to lower corners, otherwise basically as new! In a fine dust jacket with a smigen of wear to spine ends, but no chips and no tears and not price-clipped. Hard to imagine a better copy survives than this one. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Banyan Press January 1947 Binding: Hardcover.